Although it has been a carefully guarded secret by the watchdogs of the mainstream media, eugenics programs were never discontinued worldwide, with… — Jim Keith Copy Share Image
For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
At one time, due to the reluctance of cult groups to allow members to dialogue with their families and professionals about their… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Jesus expressed intense anger toward those who where immoral, such as the self-righteous Pharisees, but he never suggested that they were demonized.… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
The abhorrence of society to the use of involuntary confessions does not turn alone on their inherent untrustworthiness. It also turns on… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do;… — Vittorio Alfieri Copy Share Image
Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The luge is the only Olympic event where you could have people competing in it against their will, and it would look… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, we say reincarnation is the conscious taking of rebirth by a Bodhisattva, or by a high being, whereas rebirth, is… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hillary [Clinton] even said that, whether or not teenagers want treatment, they have to get it. So it's involuntary treatment. — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The first merit of pictures is the effect they produce on the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be… — Frederick Niecks Copy Share Image